Lead IT Data Engineer (SQL/Python)

Tyson Foods

Full time Computer Occupations
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Location
Springdale, Arkansas, United States
Posted
June 19, 2026

Job Description

Job Details:

The Lead IT Data Engineer owns and drives the organization's data strategy, setting the technical direction for data engineering, enterprise data modeling, and agentic AI adoption. This role is responsible for platform architecture, tool selection, cloud strategy, budget and capacity planning, and the design of enterprise AI agent systems — all while establishing governance frameworks for responsible data and AI practices and mentoring the engineering team. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities 

  • Own and drive the overall data strategy, including the multi-quarter technical roadmap, platform architecture, and data engineering standards. 
  • Architect end-to-end data solutions across cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure), setting standards for orchestration (Airflow, Dagster), transformation (dbt), streaming (Kafka, Flink), and storage (Delta Lake, Iceberg, Snowflake, BigQuery). 
  • Own the enterprise data modeling strategy — cra...

    • Job Details

    • Job Type
      Full time
    • Category
      Computer Occupations
    • Date Posted
      June 19, 2026
    • Application Deadline
      July 29, 2026